On Aug 16, 2004, at 6:53 PM, Bill Holt asked: > How much of a time lag is there between the event that changes your IP > and > the correction that DynDNS does? As I recall, it takes the registrars > as > much as a few days to get the pointers set correctly so that a new > domain > name goes to the right machine. It sounds like you're saying that > DynDNS > does essentially the same thing in a relative flash. Or, am I singing > out > of the wrong book?
I've set up addresses by hand with DynDNS and then tried them. It seems to take only a few minutes for the change to trickle through the DNS system. Certainly, it takes no more than 15 minutes and usually no more than five. The real lag is until the local software notices the change. My Linux software checks the IP hourly, so my address is never out of date for much more than an hour. I could have it check more frequently, but that seems pointless. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
